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As you probably already know, scams and hoaxes abound on Facebook.
Luckily, many of those scams and the vast majority of the hoaxes are relatively benign other than the irritation they cause, but some of them are actually quite dangerous.
One of the most dangerous scams ever to hit Facebook is rearing its ugly head once again. [Read more…]
There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.
Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.
Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.
Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account.
And how they do that just might surprise you… [Read more…]
As I explained in this post, apps are the sources of many of the problems that afflict Facebook users on a daily basis.
Well, there’s a very popular set of apps and games that are spreading like wildfire among Facebook users, and you should know that using one of them could well put your personal information at risk.
Facebook is a wonderful venue for sharing our thoughts, ideas and photos with our friends and loved ones, but it also has a very serious downside. It’s ridiculously easy for false information to spread like wildfire by “going viral”.
Just think of all the “Free Gift Card” and “Click and share to get Facebook to donate to this great cause” scams. We see them every day. And make no mistake about it, these are very serious scams.
But there’s another type of scam that routinely takes place on Facebook that is perhaps even worse. Some folks use Facebook to falsely accuse innocent people of crimes and infractions they didn’t commit. [Read more…]